IT outsourcing: Does it make sense for your schools?

By Dennis Pierce, Editor

May 18th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_64219" align="alignleft" width="161"] Companies have been making ambitious claims about how much money schools and colleges can save by offloading the work of hosting and managing software on their own computers.[/caption]

Cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and “managed” or “hosted” services: These are terms that today’s ed-tech directors surely are familiar with. But do these models always make sense for schools?

That was the question that Geoff Tritsch, vice president of Vantage Technology Consulting Group, sought to help school technology leaders answer last month during a breakout session...

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